As fresh and refreshing as it gets. A lovely evening in Butchart’s beautiful gardens.

Taking some time to take some deep breathes, smell the roses,

and shoot some long exposures of the beautifully lit gardens.

August 11 - PairA Pair of Pigeons for your Perusal.

August 10 - Spoons... or mirrors?Reflections on the ferry on the way to Vancouver island.

August 9 - Yourself

Yup that’s me. On the Cliff walk at Capilano.

In order to accomplish today’s project I let my dear hubby press the shutter for me.

August 8 - Symmetry Engineering perfection.

August 7 - EnergyThe energy of a wildfire in BC and the energy and of those who fight it.

August 6- Water

Went to a place called “Jewel Lake” to work on some landscape photography with my new filters.

Picture 1 - What I wanted the lake to look like since it was called “Jewel”.

Picture 2- What the lake really looked like.

The filtered pic used two graduated filters; a purple one for the bottom half and a blue one for the top.

August 5 – S is for…Silhouette. Pretty raven up so high; Off into the big blue sky.

August 5 - Half

When a deer decides he wants to be your friend you can only get 1/2 of him in your frame

when you are shooting with 100mm lens.

August 3 - Fast Shutter

Today's math question....

If a photographer is in a car going 100km an hour

and wants to take a picture of a still object

what shutter speed does the photographer need to use

in order to keep the subject in focus?

1/4000!

August 2 - Narrow Aperture

Today's picture is the same as yesterdays except it is shot with a narrow aperture of f22.

Notice the difference in how much of the photo is in focus.

As a result of the narrower aperture we have a much wider depth of field.

The aperture setting is measured in f-stop values, with apertures such as f/1.4 and f/2.8 being wide apertures, as they have the widest opening and let in the most light. Apertures with higher f-stop numbers (f/11, f/16 and so on) are referred as small, or narrow.

August 1 - Wide Aperture

The aperture setting is measured in f-stop values, with apertures such as f/1.4 and f/2.8 being wide apertures, as they have the widest opening and let in the most light. Apertures with higher f-stop numbers (f/11, f/16 and so on) are referred as small, or narrow.

Todays picture uses an aperture of f1.8.

Tomorrows picture will be the same picture but shot with a narrow aperture for comparison.